<html>
<head>
<title>Reading a file using PHP</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
$filename = "/home/user/guest/tmp.txt";
$file = fopen( $filename, "r" );
if( $file == false )
{
   echo ( "Error in opening file" );
   exit();
}
$filesize = filesize( $filename );
$filetext = fread( $file, $filesize );

fclose( $file );

echo ( "File size : $filesize bytes" );
echo ( "<pre>$text</pre>" );
?>

</body>
</html>